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Hydrogels in Miniemulsions

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Chemical Design of Responsive Microgels

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Abstract

In the last decade, the synthesis of polymeric materials that respond to specific environment stimuli by changing their size has attracted widespread interest in both fundamental and applied areas of research. Hydrogels in dispersions are composed of randomly oriented, physically or chemically crosslinked hydrophilic or amphiphilic polymer chains. The synthesis of these gels at the nanoscale (nanogels or microgels) is especially of great importance for their application in drug delivery and controlled release systems, and in biomimetics, biosensing, tissue regeneration, heterogeneous catalysis, etc. The focus of this review is to present the versatility of the miniemulsion process for the formation of monodisperse nanogels from synthetic and natural polymers. Several applications of the obtained microgels are briefly described.

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Landfester, K., Musyanovych, A. (2010). Hydrogels in Miniemulsions. In: Pich, A., Richtering, W. (eds) Chemical Design of Responsive Microgels. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 234. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/12_2010_68

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